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The 46th Ann Arbor Film Festival

Opening Day by Tanguay Established in 1963, this internationally-renowned festival showcases independent and experimental film and video and is the oldest of its kind in North America. Each year the festival attracts entries from artists…
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The Week for March 17-23, 2008

Detroit Night Walk 03/14/2008 by army71rich Welcome to another installment of The Week - our place for comments and links to news from the week, interesting blog posts, cool video and media, coming events, new web sites added to Absolute…
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Absolute Michigan sponsor: ArtServe Michigan

We thought it might be a good idea for us to introduce some of the businesses and organizations that help to support what we do on Absolute Michigan, ask you to patronize them if you can and also to sponsor Absolute Michigan if you want! …
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Ice Climbing and the Michigan Ice Fest

Eben6119 by ETCphoto The Chicago Sun-Times has a cool feature on ice climbing and the annual Michigan Ice Fest by Felicia Schneiderhan. The Ice Fest is held in Munising (home to over 100 climbable waterfalls) and celebrated its 25th anniversary…
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The Week for March 10-16, 2008

Rusty Old Boat by ~Jetta Girl~ The Week is a place for comments and links to news from the week, interesting blog posts, cool video and media, coming events, new web sites added to Absolute Michigan and other stuff you find on these Michigan…
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The 2008 East Lansing Film Festival

The 11th annual East Lansing Film Festival (ELFF) takes place March 12-20, 2008. The ELFF the largest and most diverse film festival in Michigan and screens more than 100 independent and foreign feature, documentary, short and student films…
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Book-related Michigan Festivals & Events

You can read on for a list of Michigan Festivals, Events and other happenings that feature books, authors and writers. If there's one we missed, please add information or a link to it in the comments! chicaloo (aka Kate Kehoe) by mfophotos (from…
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Five things you need to know for Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Welcome to the Michigan Goes Global edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan where we try and see how Michigan and Michiganians have fared on the wider stage over the last week or so. Somehow we didn't have room to fully explore…
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2008 Ann Arbor Folk Festival

Ben Folds by jaywestphotography Tickets are already sold out for Saturday night at The Ark's Annual Ann Arbor Folk Festival at the Hill Auditorium, but there are still a few remaining for Friday night (Jan 25) featuring headliner Ben Folds,…
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Cars, Cows, Politics & Tigers

Well, there was supposed to be a Five Things you need to know about Michigan here but my job got in the way. Here's a couple things that would have been here ... you can see why this sort of thing is normally grouped under the "Five Things you…
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Absolute Michigan: The Week for January 13, 2008

The third episode of The Week features more Michigan Notable Books, author Tom Bissell, the the 2008 Detroit Auto Show and a great iceboating video from our video group, and lots of photos from the Absolute Michigan pool. This week's…